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Noun
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Both Toth’s notoriety and his victimization stem from Corbet’s flirtation with diabolism as the essence of civilization.—
Armond White,
National Review,
3 Jan. 2025 -
Whatever their theme — spectral invasion, diabolism, shape-changing — Blackwood expertly builds up an atmosphere of the otherworldly coupled with the spiritually threatening.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
9 Dec. 2020
Noun
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Jew haters have long alleged the wickedness of Israel and its ties with powerful elites across the world.—
Michael S. Roth,
Time,
6 Aug. 2025
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Speaking after him, another pastor compared Austin to Nineveh, a city associated with wickedness in the Old Testament.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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Our empathy keeps getting used to excuse evil.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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The courtroom thriller dramatizes the first international tribunal against surviving Nazi leaders, probing not only their crimes but also the nature of evil itself.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2025
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The Bloody Mary singer has never publicly expressed interest in satanism, and has been vocal about her belief in Christianity.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
People.com,
6 May 2025
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With townspeople convinced that the athlete was sucked up by the waves of satanism spreading across the country, a group of outcasts in a band named Dethkrunch decides to lean into the panic, turning the members into targets themselves.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
23 Oct. 2024
Noun
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These instant charge-ups happen repeatedly, billions of times per second, in periods of high demand (like wrapping your mind around the enormity of that statistic).—
Matt Fuchs,
Time,
2 Sep. 2025
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The enormity of what happened in so short a span of time beggars belief.—
Hussein Agha,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
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Folklore portrays them as menacing figures lurking in the darkness who can possess those who wander too far from home.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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Aesthetically and emotionally, Swag II is dawn chasing darkness away.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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What if the atrocities amount to genocide?—
Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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So much atrocity, so much terror is unbearable.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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While working together on The Unit, David Mamet once told you that good drama isn’t a choice between good and bad; good drama is the choice between two bads.—
Max Gao,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Jan. 2025
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Reports out of fall camp haven’t been super favorable to their offense, and while the defense will, again, be top-notch, a team with this bad of an offense cannot be trusted.—
Austin Mock,
The Athletic,
19 Aug. 2024
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